I'll take my little bit out of your substantial response
I don't know what a "tommie" is, but perhaps you mean a Tomahawk. Yes, I disagree.
Spinning through several thousand feet can take quite a while, and there's ample time to get out. Whether you can or not is another matter entirely.
Yes Piper Tomahawk PA38, my point was after orientating oneself and extracting your self from the aircraft which would be very difficult in a 'car door' type aeroplane there would be precious little time left to deploy a chute (if the tail doesn't whack you first), in saying that i know a glider pilot who reckons he pulled his chute at 500 ft AGL and escaped with a nasty sprain
of course the only reason you'd probably want to do is if the aircraft became aerodynamically unfly-able in that case it would probably not be stable and throwing you about abit.
All bravado aside i seriously wonder how many of us would actually be able to extract ourselves in this case?
Not a converstaion you want to have with non flyers in ear shot.